I went to dinner with my wife last week and we were talking to the waiter about the tragedy in Haiti.
As we talked, he mentioned something that I thought was very profound. He said, “People have a hard time dealing with things in a very large or very small magnitude and usually we dismiss these things in our lives because emotionally it is just too much.”
I thought, “Wow, that is so true!” His example, was that if you lose a loved one, it would be unbearable. But if fifty thousand people die it is almost unimaginable.
Think about space and then try to think what happens if you keep going further. Or think about atoms, neutrons, or protons, and then think smaller. I mean, we can think about it conceptually, but our brain doesn’t function well in the realm beyond that.
If you take this to a practical level in our lives it is exactly the way we behave as well. If a decision seems too big we usually shy away, and if it is too small we ignore it, but both of these are ways of dismissing our reality.
God works in the macro and micro. Many times people think that God only deals with the big picture and then He leaves us to figure out the small stuff. Yet, if you look at scripture, you will see countless times where God intervenes in both ways. Allow God to show you the things He wants to change in you in big and small ways. Doing this will allow you to experience contentment with the small and adventure in the big.
P.s. You can donate 10 dollars to the Red Cross Relief Efforts by texting “HAITI” to 90999.
